Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is something another national weekly (the ? ?*) will not do. Some time since, in answer to a correspondent somewhere in Iowa, this periodical stated: "Tenderfeet is wrong; the proper plural of Tenderfoot is Tenderfoots...
...Trouble. All issues arise from somebody's trouble. This issue arises out of financial misfortune in farming communities. It centres for the present in Iowa: the price of corn, bank failures, etc.?the entire round of agricultural depression. The leaders of the issue-makers are Senator Capper of Kansas and Representative Dickinson of Iowa, both Republicans, champions in the two Houses of Congress of a rapidly reviving farm bloc...
...Iowa a farm meeting called by bankers passed resolutions calling for disposal of surplus crops through a government organization. All thirteen Iowa Representatives in Congress were-present at the meeting. Representative Dickinson announced the preparation of a bill creating a Farm Commission to aid private organizations to dispose of surpluses of various crops, lending them Government money. Senator Capper worked on a bill for an export "corporation also to be aided by Government funds...
...placate the farmers. Within a few days he is to confer in Washington with farm editors, with farm leaders of note (Frank 0. Lowden, Aaron Shapiro, Sam Thompson), with a conference of cooperative marketing associations. Some of the supporters of the Administration's position blame Iowa's troubles largely on Iowa's banks. Iowa normally feeds about four fifths of her corn to hogs. Last year the corn crop was small, and Iowa farmers sold many hogs, presumably under bankers' advice. This year the corn crop is large. That of itself tends to lower the price. The quality...
According to an Iowa State Colege bulletin, Iowa farmers lost 525,000,000 in 1914 owing to weeds. R. F. Foster, famed card player, jotted this fact down; and it became recently the point of departure for a chapter in a book on religion. How many millions of dollars does society lose because of human weeds! So, with the most orthodox technique, he develops his subject...